fulfilment

ShipBlu bags $2.4M for its e-commerce and fulfilment service in Egypt – TechCrunch

April 22, 2023
F&B Business
24M
bags
ecommerce
Egypt
fulfilment
service
ShipBlu
TechCrunch

African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser, Ahmed ElKawass, Abdelrahman Hosny in…

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Nigeria’s Sendbox raises .8M to provide e-commerce fulfilment for small merchants – TechCrunch

Nigeria’s Sendbox raises $1.8M to provide e-commerce fulfilment for small merchants – TechCrunch

April 20, 2023
F&B Business
18M
ecommerce
fulfilment
merchants
Nigerias
provide
raises
Sendbox
small
TechCrunch

There is a lot of activity going on with social commerce in Nigeria. From Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp holding the keys to the marketplace-facing side of things to fintech companies like Paystack and Flutterwave bringing value with their storefronts capabilities, small and medium-sized merchants have more reach to their customers than ever before. Yet,…

Marguerita Mcnally